The ultimate Rick-Rolling, as the Never Gonna Give You Up Hitmaker joins The Foo Fighters on stage at the Summer Sonic Festival in Japan. Whether you like Mr Grohl’s music or not, you have to say his band always look like they are having a bloody good time.
Warning: contains loud ‘melon-farmers’.
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That is brilliant!
Old Ricks still got it.
Love it.
Now to work out which members of the clan it’s safe to share with.
Mrs NE1, never a RA fan but at least knows who he is and will appreciate the Foos.
No. 1 daughter, knows the Foos but has zero RA recognition.
No. 1 son loves the Foo Fighters but has no idea who RA is and self edits Mellon farmers as was evidenced by us watching Glastonbury together a few weeks ago when he fast forwarded any talky bits just in case!
Have to admit I was won over by the FF at Glastonbury as they seemed to be having fun and this seems to back this up.
Thanks DG, I have belatedly found out the meaning of melon farmers! Sitting on my in-law’s sofa, lol.
I may be wrong, but I think the ‘melon-farmer’ substitution first arose in a TV edit of one of the Die Hard films. Although the best ‘clean’ dubbed line from that series is obviously this one:
Ha!
ITV tried “kemosabe” instead, which is great because a “ck” doesn’t require you to close your mouth, whereas a “b” obviously does. So Alan Rickman ended up being dubbed saying “yippee ki yay, kemosaaaaaa” at one point.
I recall in an ITV showing of Dirty Harry flick ‘The Dead Pool – the one with Jim Carrey as Axl Rose that Clint said ‘That really ticks me off’ like he was Alan Bennet.
The Frost/ Wright / Pegg films have some funking fun with dubbing the TV versions
It was Repo Man
Gawd … the teeth on that drummer …
That is awesome. Rick’s got a great rock voice, the Foos are possibly the greatest and most generously happy fun band ever, ever, ever, the song’s a beaut, and it all really works. What a fantastic four minutes.
What Monsieur le Renard said. Bloody fantastic.
“IIIII Just wanna tell you how I’m feeling…I’M FEELING FOOKIN’ MARVELLOUS”!
Good work by Newton-Le-Willows finest. The boy can sing. I can’t find the clip but there’s an interview with Pete Waterman when he talks about hearing him sing for the first time and he starts welling up.
What we need now is for John Fogerty to be invited up for a song.
Headline: “Grohling On The River”